Watch: Sherpa carries Everest climber in ‘death zone’ rescue



A Nepali Sherpa rescued a Malaysian climber found clinging to a rope below Mount Everest’s summit. It’s an area known as the “death zone,” where successful rescues are very rare.

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42 thoughts on “Watch: Sherpa carries Everest climber in ‘death zone’ rescue”

  1. I have a friend who said when you climb the highest mountain peaks, you have to be mentally prepared that one day you may not be able to come back alive. He eventually died doing what he loved in 2019.

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  2. I bet that Chinese man will be shamed for having an Indian man save him from death. Especially being that India and China both want claim to that mountainous region as its own

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  3. These sherpas rarely get enough praise. They're all total heros. That guy is carrying someone weighing 70kg+, including an O2 cylinder. They regularly carry loads of 50kg, which is pushing it.

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  4. Buat apa nak tawan puncak dunia, bazir duit & bahayakan nyawa……sedangkan ada banyak kerja berfaedah…guna duit untuk tolong orang miskin, beri makanan, tempat perlindungan & pelajaran kepada mangsa perang.

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  5. Both the sherpas and Chinese climbers have done their equal parts thanks to both parties. Can you imagine you are 800mtrs close to your dream project but you let it go away for strangers life and the Sherpas who convinced that money and summit can be earned next time but life can’t be saved another time… just wow

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  6. Sherpas are superhuman. They will always help climbers aslong as they're alive.
    They will leave anyone who has died (as they should). this is why Everest is FULL of frozen corpses, latest victim is that Australian guy that was doing it for charity.
    He will be left up there forever like the rest.

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  7. God bless those courageous Sherpa who do an unbelievable job on Everest. Without the Sherpa people no one would Summit 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. The Sherpa people are a great race and assesst to have on your expedition team. Please always show respect to the Sherpa people all the time. They are only here to save your life for a measly $5,000 USD.

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  8. It's hard to convey the extreme personal risk the sherpa took in hauling him down. One mis-step in some areas and both would have fallen to their deaths. That's why this is a very rare rescue. Also, summit climbers don't carry "spare" anything, especially oxygen or hot tea. If either is required to revive a fallen person, it's coming out of a climbers limited rations. Also, it's no surprise that a sherpa did this and not a paying climber. A paying climber would be giving up the summit, for which they paid about $100,000 or more. The morality, and risk, of saving a fallen climber is the topic of much Everest debate. Every year, summit climbers have to pass unrescued frozen bodies from the previous year(s).

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  9. A mysterious Msian. What we know, there was one Msian that died on Everest & buried just recently at his home state & another Muhammad Hawari Hashim still missing…

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